January 20, 2023 We keep losing musical greats as the creative artists of the 70s get into their 80s. Recently it was Jeff Beck, and just a day or two ago David Crosby. So I ...
December 16, 2022 Not a lot of News this week but quite a bit of improvising with Seasonal Favorites. I started with some ramblings on a tune I worked on in a friend’s studio yesterday ...
November 18, 2022 Rev. Gary Davis, Hot Tuna, and even Peter, Paul & Mary crept into today’s Update, mostly with respect to upcoming plans. Some of this is part of a request from last week ...
October 7, 2022 This week’s new lesson was Neil Young’s One Of These Days, from his 1992 album Harvest Moon. Like many of his songs, it is in Double Dropped D Tuning, which adds lots ...
May 27, 2022 Last week a song came up in a message from a student. Dan was having a little trouble with Lindsey Buckingham’s Big Love (surprise, surprise!). It is a song I had considered ...
A few months after finishing the lesson on Superstar, Corina found time to add her vocal part. This has always been one of our favorite songs to play at our International Guitar Camp and we ...
March 26, 2021 A little Unforgettable to start and some really old Renbourn at the end today. In between there were some thoughts on recent lessons and how they came about, the end of our ...
The big news this week is that I am thrilled that we were able to get Bob McAlpine on board as a contributor here at TG. His first lesson went live earlier this week and ...
Today I spent most of the video running through bits and pieces of things I may play on the radio this afternoon, starting with an old standby, The Last Steam Engine Train. That is an ...
This week I had a lot of fun finally getting around to a lesson that had been on my mind for years, a solo arrangement of Your Mother Should Know from the Beatles’ album Magical ...